Alien: Isolation Retrospective // Micro Changes in Game Density

[@Slyslug]

im a simple man, i see multi hour retrospective, i click

[@fallinghurts]

Thank you brother. Let me know what you think!

[@Elto_Gaming]

I think you’ve inspired me to make my own retrospective on this game. It’s a game that’s so incredibly special to me personally, and this video is amazing.

[@fallinghurts]

You should! I’ve done this for both Alien and Firewatch now. It’s very therapeutic to analyze something you’re already passionate about.

[@squeezypop1]

Thank you so much for your incredible contribution to the reviewer’s lore of the Alien franchise. I love the whole universe. Keep it up and thanks again for your well thought out entry. 🙂

[@fallinghurts]

Thank you for the kind words! By your wording, you must be a big Alien fan. Do you have a favorite game outside of Isolation?

[@LB_]

28:55 finding the blueprints early is something a lot of players actually fail to do. Blueprints have multiple different spawn locations so that if a player misses one of the earlier locations, they can still find one of the later ones. A lot of players I've seen missed the first medkit blueprint you found for example. So, the pacing of blueprints will vary from one player to another.

[@fallinghurts]

That’s a good way to look at it. Easy to forget people don’t have those locations partially memorized. Thanks for stopping by!

[@Puzzleguy123]

youtube gods landing a long essay in my recommended videos 🙏

[@fallinghurts]

I hope you enjoy, Puzzleguy123

[@rswpt]

Great review my friend, i can see your love for this fantastic game, i love it too, i hope creative assembly makes a even better one on alien isolation 2 as they revelaed its on early development, i cant wait for it to get released! :D I subbed

[@fallinghurts]

Thank you for the kind words! What’s your biggest hope for the sequel?

[@rswpt]

@@fallinghurts i hope they keep the same recipe, another scenario perhaps, but i think if they keep this same formula it will be a hit CA could also make, if possible, an 'alien isolation' game having john carpenters 'the thing' theme, it would be amazing

[@donovian2538]

Only two hours? That's a good warmup for my neurodivergent bingewatching needs.

[@fallinghurts]

It’s cool. I just finished a 2 part, 20 hour essay on Skyrim. Thanks for stopping by!

[@brianfleming5882]

1:19:30 there's actually exactly this scenario late in the game. Looked down and saw one crawling through the side grate next to me after finishing a space walk. Heart palpitations and hiding ensued

[@fallinghurts]

Randomly got a notification for this comment on my phone. Later in the video I bring up the same thing again Super cool and scary for sure that first time. I just hoped for less scripted versions of it!

[@alloverdaplace2043]

I just beat this game last week after ten years lol man what a game

[@gilbertlopez2333]

Great video. Keep it up. Subbbbbbed

[@TheHungrySlug]

I admit, I have a love hate relationship with this game. Some parts flow so smoothly while other parts are (possibly) more annoying than getting teeth pulled with no anaesthetic.

[@fallinghurts]

I love the imagery LMAO. I get that. I also acknowledge that being an alien fan puts me at a huge bias. Though, I’m sure I know those exact sections.

[@TheHungrySlug]

@@fallinghurts grew up watching the Alien movies, all of them. It is hard to really fall in love with Alien Isolation's play styles, after having played Alien vs Predator 2. As a marine (in AVPS) you automatically have a motion senor in the bottom left of the HUD, in isolation you have to equip it and pull it out and avoid being heard. I know it is only a small thing but it still bugged me. The remake of Alien vs predator is worse than Alien Isolation. Control prompts everywhere that break immersion and the faction balance is wacky. But they are all still part of the alien universe and so I love them even if they are annoying to complete. Also, I really enjoyed your video essay and subscribed to catch any future uploads.

[@gilbertlopez2333]

What did you think about Romulus haven’t seen it yet. My favorite is aliens. Love the marines

[@fallinghurts]

I liked Romulus a lot. A good story with great characters and pretty good tense sequences. My only major complaint was they used CGI to have a dead actor in the movie and while they say they had permission it was unnecessary and quite frankly it looked ugly. If I had to give a number score.. 7? 7.5?

[@DRAGONSSCREAM]

Did you feel your face muscles tense up like mine did when he "get away from her you bitch" ​in that film. @@fallinghurts

[@fallinghurts]

@DRAGONSSCREAM it’s even worse when you realize that in the timeline he says it BEFORE Ripley. It wasn’t as bad for me as most people, but still idk what the point was

[@versebuchanan512]

Look, what happened on Sevastopol is sad. It's a tragedy, no doubt. But I mean... it wasn't a Wey-Yu facility. Right? Like. Those people CHOSE to work for an inferior company. They got what they paid for, right? You'd NEVER see something like this happening on a proper Weyland-Yutani facility. We're building better worlds! The Company cares about us, the working men and women! That's what all the signs say, at least!

[@fallinghurts]

Welcome back, Carter Burke LMAO